What is the purpose of the transducer damping material and the matching layer?
What are the methods you use to determine how much a 3.5-MHz pulse will be attenuated after passing through 2 cm of soft tissue
Answer 1: The purpose of the transducer damping material is to decrease the amount of reflection at the interface of piezoelectric crystal/system and the matching layer increase the transmission of the waves generated by the transducer and PZT system.
Answer 2: Using Ultrasonic Attenuation Estimate method we can determine the attenuation of a pulse passing through a soft tissue:
given,
pulse frequency = 3.5 MHz
soft tissue size = 2 cm
the formula of this method is:
Attenuation (in dB) equals to:
path length = tissue size (in cm) = 2
thus,
Anttenuatio (dB) = 0.5*3.5*2 = 3.5 dB
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